The Sun. — London, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

LITERATURE. ZIEATH'S PICTURESQUE ANNUAL. Longman, London, 1838. The " Pictures qu e Annual," which is always well edited mr. Leitch Ritchie, is one of the most favourable spe. ‘.llllens of it s c l ass, whether as regards its pictorial embel lishments or its literary contents. The volume for the ..?sent year i s w h o ll y devoted to a description of the splen -4 Pala ce and gardens of Versailles, which it was the B br and Mo narque ' s hobby, to make the finest thing of the 2 r t in Europe. The Editor's details of this showy spot 7 , given in a lively, piquant manner, and interspersed is variety o f amus i ng anecdotes, for many of which he to t o the old French memoir writers. The brief notice of Louis the Fourteenth ; of his early gallantries nfith the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin and the celebrated 1, Duc ues% de La Valliere ; and of the extraordinary pomp up etiqu e t te which that ostentatious monarch rigidly kept 8 : i n his mag n ifi cent court ;—all these, an d many other ch matters of gossip, Mr. Leitch Ritchie contrives to c'erader very delightful by hi s p o inted and sprightly mode narration. B ut t h e most genera ll y i nterest i ng port i on n the " Picturesque Annual" is the account of the recent tu t'erati ons and improvements made in the palace of Ver. !lilies by the present King Louis Philippe, who has bad 111113 e rare art t o i mpart to i t an a i r o f nat i ona l , i nstea d o f ourtly, i nterest, and even to convert i t i nto a great re ere onal monument. The engravings of the " Picturesque nal," which are not less than twenty in number, are of cour se ail. , illustrative of the various splendors of the palace a he grounds of Vers a illes. They are fo r th e most part t ..ecuted with singular ability—especially th e s k e tches of Or angery; of the Court of Louis the Fifteenth at play ; nd the portrait of the celebrated but unfortunate Marie ntoinette. This last is the . ; likeness of one in the full t bloom and grace of womanhood, silch as the original was which Year previous to that mgr.:wary national convulsion aro brought her to the scaVid. The features are small i s ` c i.delicately moulded ; tb: e expression of the countenance a t rifled, yet not devr:id of softness ; and the airy, buoy s;.gure, so perfect in its symmetry, justifies even the en `isue eufogiu':o of Burke. The Court of Louis at play chiefly realty:cable for the skilful manner in which a great griety o f figures, many of them full lengths, are grouped. OLIVER TWIST. 3 Vols. Bentley, Lond on , 1838. ' e ha ve h ere " Oli ver Twist " complete d i n t h ree l e mes, and more attr a ct i ve volumes have not f or some th e issued from the Press. By far the greater portion of th :nn have already appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, but d ose kast half of the third volume is entirely new ; and p a ri beS the murder of the poor girl Nancy by her ruffian subrasemuur, Bill Sykes, the house-breaker ; the wretch's queut death by suicide ; and the execution of that l v:44eulate Israelite, Fagin. This last is a truly powerful e of description, and in places reminds us of Victor f e ,:rs " Last Days of a Condemned Criminal." We pre not 1 - . ; h° lvever, to that, because it is equally vigorous, and e n 1 alf exaggerated. And now that it is brought to a hasty and abrupt one, by the bye, for we have uut ?T y w e sl ig h test not i on why F agin is h ange d ; a ll we kratuhis.that h e d eserves i t — we cannot refrain from con ding Boz on his masterly conception of this charac- I t 1 • a nd the equa ll y a d ro i t manner i n w hi c h i t i s execu t e d. there superior even Jonathan Wilde ;" first, because srd e se i c s more of the leaven of real humanity about it ; oo 'ndlY, because throughout the delineation, we see -e ver impelling m o ti ves t o v ill a i nous act i on . Grasping, _ 84 ted avarice, s h own i n a ll th e var i ous phases of his o f a th e rY, is th e one l ea di ng f eature, an d never l ost s i g ht o f, fr o ,„ e Jew's cha rac t er ; b ut J ona th an o f ten com mits crimes b 4t - ' a mere l ove o f scoun d re li sm, w hi c h i s no t na t ure , iii something b eyon d i t. Bill S y k es i s a vu l gar , bluster oft en ounon-pla ce , re li eve d, h owever , by incidental touches houumour and feeling, which none but a man of superior wen, of te r , mind could ha v e thrown into it. The charac b, e ' Nancy is admirably sustained throughout ; indeed, Vrrtt thit of consistency, it is the best in the tale. The -°ll , s personages — such as the Brownlows, Grimwigs, for Gyan,fortemque Cloanthum"—ar mere en.tities. As for Monks, he is a melo-dramatic mon sterof the Fitzball school, fit only to be played by 0. ettyth, in a bla c k w i g , at t h e C o b urg . Rose Maylieis a „simpleton ; but the Bumbles—particularly the old l' enem so—are capital. We recognize truth in their every parnent. On the whole, we may say that " Oliver h a n t " is hiconnparably the finest tale of the season. It .ies s more Humour but fa r power and variety of oh: aerVa.ion than , the' Pickwick Papers." NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. l it appears from a letter addressed by the Duke of Wel ; v gtoo to Si r Ch ar l es Stuart, that shortly after the battl Waterl oo i t was proposed to t h e D u k e to d es p a t c h N a v i ol e o " by a public exec u tion. The name of the individua D, made the proposition left blank in the printed letter, the public will h ave no diffi cu l ty i n filli ng it u p. Th e 4 Juk e of of ' course would have no thi ng t o d o w ith suc h a d ee d Wickedness. We only regret, for the honour of his Illustrious name, that he had not used the same means to alie the life of the bravest of the brave, the unfortunate I N . ey. The letter is dated 14 days after the battle. " General -- has been here this day to negotiate for Napoleon's passing to America, to which proposition I have answered that I have no authority. The Prussians think the Jacobins will give him over to me, believing I will save big life, wishes to kill him, but I have told him that I shall remonstrate, and shall insist upon his being disposed '4 by common accord. I have likewise said, that as a private friend I advised him to have nothing to do : : ith so foul a transaction—that he and I acted too dis `2.ngoished parts in these transactions to become exeeu uoners, and that I was determined that if the Sovereigns t viisb ed to put him to death they should appoint an execu 4"er, which should not be me." LABOURERS' WAGES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. KENT, Nov. 18, 1838. us S irr—lt i s much to be deplored the Press, so generally e ra), should l en d i tse lf to promu l ga t e err or and promote m, s a), /3 I am led thus to address your; from perceiving in your s M 3 er of the 16th instant, it is said in a Letter from Wilt counties is Bs. S ager that " the average wages of an able bodied man in Deadit per week ;" and then follows the ex is of his family. You then remark " this statement n ot confi ne d to NViltshire, " &c. &c. A s K en t is drawn Wit , an no being an occup i er many years in the county, I, Pa ut fear of co n t ra di ct i on , state that fifty years ago the t2 r an abl e l a b ourer was 9 s . per week ; that in w ar "ginning of N ovem b er , 1836 (to say nothing of the and P ri ce), the p a y was ra i se d f rom 10 s . ge nerally to 12_s., th e .3 "W 13s. 6d., b u t m y se lf a nd many others pay by 44e scale b eneath. Your Wiltshire friends make no allow for th e earn i ngs of the family, nor the extra earn i ngs fatil l a e v est, glea n i ng , & c ., nor t h e pi ece wor k d o ne by the ju g tt , l4 ' nor the many gratuitous services of the master dur by 52 e Year, all which should be summed up and divided fitnessss But pe r h a p s h e h as never he a rd the oath put to a truth in a criminal cause (to speak the truth, the whole lab and nothing but the truth.) The general pay to able belc, r , er s in the I s l e o f Thanet is now 15s. per week, and I You 'r e, if the pay of the whole county was ascertained, wo uld blu s h at your remark. I remain, Sir,. A N ENEMY TO PREJUDICE IN ANY SHAPE. LABOURERS' WAGES. Wheeltuntthe average price of wheat, as reported of the til e er bury Market shall be under 4N. per quarter PaYment for daily labour to he. 1 6 ea at 409. and not exceeding 50s. wi l. l l above 50 s. an d not excee di ng 55 s 1 10 Wh above 55 5. an d not excee di ng 60 s 2 0 Wh e " above 60 s . an d no t excee di ng 65 s 2 2 Wh e n n above 655. and not exceeding 75s 2 4 T o above 75 5. 2 6 c lete m , e regulated.monthly. The average of each month to %e rm ine the payment Burinr the ensuing month. Conse -3' I now pay 14s. ek. CHURCH-RATES. ty earti G AY, ST. MARY.—Yesterday the Church-rate d Aari Pai g n was opened for the present season in this note the s u ss y the collector's demand being made on some of ref use eatin g inhabitants. The demand was, of course, ar a - ", and the Churchwardens must now recover the ado utint, if r , they intend to collect it, in one of the ways z& te " by their predecessors in former years. Samuel S co tt h av i ng re ti re d from the office in b ee f s - " °a has ear ne d so muc h p o p u larity, a successor has 0 found in th e p rn erson of a Mr. Mann, who has alread ni y er ,ed th e post of Churchwarden, in which he co - Igi a ce d t he Church-rate war Fare in this parish, in the year rr i :_and dist ra i ne d t h e goo d s o f-t wo i n h a bit an t s . th e ere is on e f act w hi c h mus t b e hi g hl y sa ti s f ac tory to tr a i n Fnrchw ar d ens, name l y , t h at a l t h oug h goo d s were dis te-e' and sold last year, amounting in value to ten times costs ate, the sum realized was not sufficient to pay the r at ,of seizing and at this moment not a farthing of the 7 , 11 :5 .. ? en obtained. e . e one of L v erY Reverend Archdeacon Glover has been paying du ty "is rare visits in the town, and on Sunday performed ello in the parish church. The following morning was th e i a r en , bY the authorities of that church for commencing nei g hb i o e g u a r l s. depredati on on the rights and property of their In no n 7 c "sequenee of the irregular delivery and frequent by at all o f fi s h an d o ther perishable articles sent haji rrival d ' il- r° 4 6 , s, many persons have been compelled to Mile ma ngers an d ü b ,,,, n g Parcels of this kind sent by them, whereby fish others are daily losing valuable custom. bard' bolas , or th e rd 11'5 • s an d 15th. L utzi c, ctoris' ;urg b ' ;onir it, fro°l swel l. Calf u3f l2et Ri'ls to It w erc sha/ eP ; w h al t alb' a p d o r o t; ° t •led 1/r bl ) E ) 11fi ci t° Izo "h tO A frO l" ±. t o; ,t fr °lll hors o f oe s, , aid o'ir 3t, c o cs ter ), ge l Pc" sr" Cafeo lOC to t gO. tt °f ber rt llc o ' •1' s he ) log d rer° i , 1 , ;01c Ini°° e DO d o' ,e 1 10° 1 t los COURT' CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne arrived in town yesterday after noon, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. The Earl of Minto has arrived at his residence in, o de Admiralty, from Scotland. General Alava, the Spanish :Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday, at the Foreign Office. Lord Glenelg arrived in town last evening, from Lea mington. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ~--- ARRIVALS The Countess Dowager of Shrewsbury, in Montagu-square; Lady Frances Somerset, in South Audley- street ; Mr. Wil liam Whitbread, in Eaton-square; Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, Bart., in Eaton-square ; Mr. Ralph Bernal, in Eaton square ; Mr. and Mrs. Clifton, in Grosvenor-place ; Captain C. H. Freemantle, in Eaton-square ; Mr. F. T. Baring, in Belgrave-square ; Mr. Jasper Atkinson, in Portman-square ; Lady Hulse, in Harley-street; Sir Robert Adair, Bart., in Chesterfield-street; Mr. 0. Smith, in Portland-place; Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Bowles, in Hill-street ; Mr. and the Misses Cotes, in Grosvenor-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Dawson, in Gros venor-street; Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., in Piccadilly; Hon. A. Thelluson, in Eaton-square ; Hon. Colonel Fitzgibbon, in Belgrave-square ; Mr. Hylton Jolliffe, in Pall-mall ; Colonel Hughes, at Bute House, in South Audley-street ; Mr. John Stewart, in Portman-square ; Mr. Russell, in Curzon-street, Mayfair ; Mr. Walter and Lady Mary Long, in MOntagu square ; Mrs. Rudsdell, in Curzon-street; Mr. T. Hankey, in Portland-place; Mr. N. B. Edmonstone, in Portland-place; Mr. C. S. Murray and Mr. G. Rochfort, in Cavendish-square; Lord Seaford, in Audley-square, from Kent ; Mr. St. George Caulfield, in Montagu-square ; Colonel Cooke, in Upper Brook-street • Mr. A. Franklin, in Hereford-street, Park lane ; Colonel and Mrs. Elliot, in Gloucester-place ; Earl O'Neil, in Sackville-street, from his seat Shames Castle, Antrim, Ireland ; Mr. Henry, at Mivart's Hotel, from his seat in Wilts ; the Misses Bower, at ditto, from a tour ; Miss Parks, at ditto, from Brighton; Viscount Canterbury, in Bond street, from a visit to the Misses Manners Sutton, at Leamington Spa ; Mr. and Mrs. Farrer, at Batt's Hotel, from the Conti nent; Sir Gilbert and Lady King and family, at ditto, from Ireland; Sir Archibald AP Donald, Bart., at ditto, from Norfolk. CHANGES. Lord and Lady Rivers, at Brighton, from their seat, Mistley Hall, Essex ; Lord and Lady Erncst Bruce, on a visit to Earl and Countess Bruce, at Savenache Lodge, near Marl borough, from Tottenham Park, the seat of the Marquis of Ailesbury ; Lord and Lady Carteret, at Bath, from a visit to the Marchioness of Bath, at the family seat, Longleat, near Warminster; the Earl of Longford, at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Beau champ, from his seat Pakenham Hall, Castlepollard Mr. and Mrs. Henry Manning, at their seat in Cheshire, from a visit to &iron and Baroness Dimsdale, at Camfield-place, Hcrts ; the !Bishop of Rochester and Lady Sarah Murray, at the Deanery, Worcester, from a visit to Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., M. P., and Lady Mordaunt, at Walton Hall, their seat near Stratford-on-Avon; the Duke of Rutland, at Bel voir Castle, from Cambridgeshire; the Bishop of Barbadoes, .at Bath, from a tour in Devonshire; the Dowager-Countess Craven and the Honourable Miss Craven, on a tour of visits, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, at Tottenham Park, Wilts; Viscount Duncan at Bath, from Warwickshire ; the Earl and Conntess of Lovelace, at their seat Ockham Park, from a visit to Mr. E. Sandford, M. P., at Nynehead Court, Somerset ; Lord By ron, at his seat near Chesterfield, from attendance or. her Ma. jesty at Windsor Castle ; Sir Edward and Lady King, at Paris, from Bellair House, Devonshire ; Lord and Lady Rolle, at Stevenstone, near Great Torrington, from their seat Bicton Lodge ; Mr. Lawrence and Lady Jane Peel, at Brighton, from a visit to Lord and Lady Henley; Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea, at Naples, from Rome. DEPARTURES. _ _ _ . Arthur Nugent, Esq., for Dublin ; G. Pollard, Esq., for Yorkshire ; Rev. C. Fryer, for Cheltenham ; J. Clarke, Esq., for Wiltshire ; Lord Haddo, from Argyle House, for Brighton; Lord Sandys, from Curzon street, for his seat Ombersley Court, Worcestershire ; Baron and Baroness Dims dale, from Mivart's Hotel, for their seat Camfield Place, Huts; the Countess of Montalembert, from Hanover.square, for Sussex ; Lord Brooke, from Carlton-gardens, for Ox ford ; Lady Charles Somerset, from Great Cumberland-street, for Brighton. Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby are expected on the Terrace, Piccadilly, to-day, from Drummond Castle, Perthshire. The Noble Lord and Lady with their family will pass the approaching Christmas at their seat, Grims thorpe, in Lincolnshire. Lady Beresford arrived last week in Paris, at the Hotel Windsor, rue de Rivoli, for the winter. The Earl and Countcss of Wilton have left Heaton Park, Lancashire, for the Noble Earl's hunting box, Eger ton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence and Mr. Wombwell left town, yesterday, on a visit to the Earl of Stradbroke, at Henham Park, Suffolk. The Duke of Richmond, before leaving Gordon Castle, gave an entertainment to his tenantry at the Castle. It took place in the fine old banqueting hall, and his Grace conducted himself in the most urbane manner to his poor as well as rich guests. There is an on dit about that Lord Castlereagh is suffering severely from the wound he received in his duel with Mons. tie Melcy, husband of Madlle. Grisi. The gos sip is that the ball entered at the wrist, and passed along the arm to the elbow, where it touched the bone ; the wound, however, healed very favourably, and no inconve nience was experienced until very lately, when, owing to the extreme irritation caused by some splinter that was not observed, the whole has been obliged to be laid open, in order to extract it, and the Noble Lord is now suffering under the operation.—Cheltenham Looker-on. We are happy to hear of the slow but certain reco very of Sir Charles Paget, who has been indisposed at his seat in Hampshire. The Presidents of the provinces of Prussia, Posen, Silesia, the Rhenish Provinces, and Westphalia, have been summoned to Berlin to give their opinion upon the law which is to fix for the future the relation of the Romish clergy to the state.—Hamburgh Paper. LOWESBY HALL, MELTON MOWBRAY.—Lord Suffield is keeping open house to the noblemen and gen tlemen who hunt with his fine hounds. Lord Macdonald, Hon. Mr. Villiers, Mr. Massey Stanley, &c., have joined the hunt. At present the hounds have had but little busi ness. although they muster five times during the week. BELvoift CASTLE.--The Honourable C. S. and Lady Emeline Stuart Wortley have arrived on a visit to the Duke of Rutland. A large circle will shortly assemble. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel will not ar rive until the latter end of the ensuing month. •-•- _ Dr. Southey, the poet, has returned to his beautiful seat in Cumberland, from the Continent. This day fortnight Parliament will be further pro rogued. It is expected that the day when it will assemble for the despatch of business will be settled at the Cabinet Council, to be held this week, when all the Cabinet Minis ters will attend. The India mail, which was looked for yesterday morning, has not arrived. A steamer was to have left Bombay on the 4th of October. If she left on that day she would have reached Suez on the 24th, in time for Mr. Waghorn's letters to have got to Alexandria, and to have been forwarded by the Marseilles steamer. At present it is not likely that we shall receive any accounts from India before the 27th of this month. REPORTED BANISHMENT OF THE 15TH Hus- SARS.—It is hinted that the recent exhibibition of the officers of the 15th Hussars at Glasgow has sealed the fate of that regiment, and insured its departure for India early in the spring. The many times it has been before the country, in situations far from soldierlike, has procured so many marks at the Horse Guards as to out-number those of any other cavalry regiment in the service, and suggest the necessity of sending them to rusticate in the East for a few years, and where, perhaps, they may have more to occupy them than the sublime pastime of dog-fighting or waltzing on horseback through arcades, to the imminent danger of the lives of her Majesty's subjects.—Caledonian Mercury. [The conduct of a few young officers in the 15th has been, as stated, reported through the proper authorities in Scot land to the Horse Guards ; but the fact that the regiment is about proceeding to India has no reference to the con duct of those young gentlemen. It has been for some time past the first cavalry regiment for India.] Letters from Malta, to the 4th inst . ., mention the arrival of her Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus, with de spatches from Sir R. Stopford. The steamer left the Ad miral on the 26th ult., .on which day the British squadron was still at Ourlac. On the following day (the 27th), the Princess Charlotte, the Minden, the Vanguard, and the Asia, were to sail for Malta, touching at Paros. The Bellerophon was to return to Athens. The Rodney, the Talavera, and the Pembroke (the two first having just joined the fleet), were to continue with the Capitan Pacha until the return of the Ottoman fleet to Constantinople. The three last-named vessels, it was expected, would spend the winter at Smyrna. On the 26th of October Sir R. Stopford and all the Captains of the British vessels were invited to dinner an board the Turkish Admiral's vessel. The entertainment is described as having been of more than usual magnificence, and the most perfect cordia'ity is said to have reigned between the officers of both nations. The Capitan Pacha presented Sir R. Stopford with a pipe richly set with jewels. Commander Walker, of the Van guard, is said to have been invited by the Capitan Pacha to take the command of a Turkish ship of the line, the Sultan Mahmoud, of 130 guns. The invitation, it is be t lieved, will be accepted, as soon as the permission of the British Government has been obtained. Such is the failure of the apple crop in some parts of Dorsetshire, that in orchards of thirty or forty acres there is not a bushel of fruit. THE SVN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, is:jB. POST-OFFICE REFORM. (From the Times of Saturday.) It is calculated, and would appear to be an estimate formed upon an exact and careful consideration of the sub ject, that if the number of letters sent through the Post= office should be increased five times, there would be derived the same revenue as is derived from the present rate of charge, though that charge were reduced to one penny only for a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight sent to any part of the United Kingdom ! This is the great and important point contended for by the advocates for Post-office Reform, who are aware, that so long as the vile principle is clung to of making the re ♦enue of the Post-office, at whatever cost and sacrifice else where, supersede all other considerations, it will be in vain to adduce any arguments for a change that do not go to the almost absolute proof that no loss, even to the Post-office itself, would thereby be sustained. Fortunately for the public, who possess an universal in terest in this great question, a most valuable collection of facts bearing upon this part of it has been made by the " Mercantile Committee on Postage," composed of some of the first merchants of the City of London, to whose la bours we have ready alluded. These facts are in part ob tained from the evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Commons, but the credit must, at the same time, be assigned to the Mercantile Committee of having been instrumental in bringing the greater part of that es i deuce together, and of assisting to diffuse it when given, by employing a solicitor or Parliamentary agent for that pur pose, the proceedings of this Committee being " secret," and the evidence not published for months afterwards—a course which would appear, in such an inquiry, to be perfectly un justifiable. We shall now proceed to give some idea of the evidence, derived from various trades and classes, upon which the ex pectation of a great increase of revenue from a reduction of the rate of postage to one penny is founded, and begin with the book trade. In the evidence of Mr. J. W. Parker, bookseller to the University of Cambridge, the following occurs : " You are of opinion that a very large addition of corres pondence would take place ?.---.There is no question of that ; the reduction of postage to Id. or 2d., which has been talked of, opens up the idea of such an extensive correspondence that I really hesitate to say the extent to which I think it might be carried ; but I estimate that our receipt of letters alone would be six or eight times what they are, and that the number of letters we should decline enclosing would amount to three to one of all we now receive ; but I cannot estimate the number of communications in the way of circulars and advertisements we should send in the course of the year ; I do not think I overstate it when I say they would be 20,000 or 30,000 in the year, where we do not now send one." Mr. Knight, the publisher to the Society for the Diffu sion of Useful Knowledge, says It is of the greatest importance to our business, consisting for the most part of the monthly publication of periodical works, seven or eight in number, adapted for general reading, sold almost universally throughout the United Kingdom, that we should be able to apprise country booksellers, about the 20th of the month, what particular portions of works, describ ing them, or what works altogether, we should publish on what is called magazine day,' that is, the last day in each month, when those works are sent off to the country. We have a list, of 1,860 country booksellers, all respectable people, with whom we should not deal ourselves, for they are, for the most part, supplied by the wholesale house, but to whom we should send about the 20th of each month invariably, if the postage were reduced to id. I should direct, for example, 1,860 circulars to be sent this month, and should continue them every month during the year, as long as I was engaged in my present busi ness; that would give an average of about 24,000 letters sent out by our establishment annually for that object. But I w ill *mention to the Committee the desirableness of the means of meeting another class of persons. We publish a work that is having a very large circulation—the Pictorial Bible;' it is a Bible with notes, which, not being doctrinal, suits every class of the religious community ; patronised equally by members of the Church of England, and by Wesleyans, Independents, and so on ; that work will be completed in two months from this time. There is no difficulty in obtaining a list of all the clergy men in England ; there is no great difficulty in obtaining a very complete list of all the Dissenting ministers : to all those I should send a circular, announcing the completion of this work, stating the nature and peculiarity of it; that alone, upon a rough calculation would dispose of 20,000 circulars." " I assume that postage would be paid by myself in advance, and seeing that 100,000 circulars might be sent annually for about 4001., I should conceive that would be by far the most efficient mode of advertising that could be adopted." " I consider that, availing myself of the advantages of the post to "distribute such circulars as I have mentioned, we should send out at least 100,000 annually, having reference to our pre sent publications; the other increase I have mentioned makes the total letters we should receive and_ send, as far as I have calculated, 127,000. We now receive and send only 11,000 annually; if the average rate of a post letter is 61d. which it is stated to be, the revenue would be very nearly Lubled in our case by a change from a high rate of postage to a low rate of postage. 11,000 letters at 6id. pay to the Post-office 2971. 18s. ; 127,000 at Id. would pay 5291. 3s. ; it is nearly double." The evidence of Mr. Knight upon this subject has been confirmed by Mr. G. B. Whittaker, of the house of Whit taker and Co. ; and it is obvious that the facts stated arc those which must occur in every publishing, house in the kingdom, and in every month of the year. From the evidence of Mr. de Porquet, scholastic agent and publisher, the following striking passages may be taken " Have you formed any opinion as to the rate to which it would require to reduce the postage to create a large increase ? —I may state that the smaller the charge, the greater would be the circulation of my circulars and the letters addressed to me. if the postage on circulars (I say nothing about written letters at present) were to be Id., I should send not less than 25,000 to 40,000 in the course of a twelvemonth ; but if it were half that amount, according to the size of the circular, if I could send a circular of a quarter of a page, I should send 100,000 to 150,000 in the course of a twelvemonth. I should not mind contracting to the amount of 100/. or 150/. a-year for the conveyance of those small slips by post; that accom modation would increase my business, I should think, at least to four times what it now is. " Do you allude to being able to send those printed circu lars at Id. each ?—Yes; then I could send from 20,000 to 30,000; but if, according to the rate of postage, it were only half that amount for a small slip, I could send not less than five times that amount. " Should you expect to receive a considerable accession of business?—lmmense; I have tried it, when the stamp-duty was reduced on newspapers. I have often purchased from 500 to 1,000 copies of one particular newspaper, the True Sun and General Advertiser, in which I have, of course, caused an ad vertisement to be inserted, which may have cost me from 81. to 10/. ; still I purchased, at the trade price, 500 to 1,000, and sent those very newspapers to all persons connected with my business, such as schoolmasters and booksellers, and it has paid me well. It has increased my business more than one third. „. ....•" —• What postage do you pay now ?—Not 101. a-year, sending by post only when I am oblige d to do it ; b ut I send inpar cels, and by friends , and I h ave had m y circ ulars printed on the spot where they are to bo circulated, rather than send ing them by the post. At this time I should consider it a great facility if I could renew my correspondence in France with all the schoolmasters, amounting to 4,000 or 1,000. If from this place I could pay the Post-office of this country one penny for each letter to Dover, and then pay two centimes in France for sending my letters throughout France, I sould send, I dare say, within the next three years, from 12,000 to 15,000 of those circulars; but I am not able to do it, owing to the present charge in England. Once I wrote-to France, ,and caused prospectuses to be sent thence, but it was imperfectly done, in consequence of my not being there. I intend to go again, and send from 5,000 to 8,000; but if I could issue them from this country at a low rate of postage, it would answer my purpose better than absenting myself. • " What number of circulars should you send each month, if you could send them at a penny postage ?-1 should not send less than 25,000 a-year if it were a penny, but I should send about 100,000 if it were a halfpenny. But the evidence of increase from the diffusion of trading circulars generally under a low rate of postage is s till more conclusive, especially if they were permitted to be accompanied with a letter of advice on the state of the markets, and also (as would be the case under an increased allowance of weight at the same time with the reduction of the rate of postage) with samples and patterns of all kinds, circulated for the purpose of obtaining orders and commis sions. The extent of this increase," says Mr. Ashurst, can hardly be fully estimated by those not intimately ac quainted with the details of trade and commerce, and, exten sive as it would be, there is this further important conside ration, that they are permanent so urces of increase, and must increase as the wealth and co mmerce of the country increase." A further quotation from this part of the pamphlet perhaps than extracts from the evidence before the Parliamentary Committee : " It would lead to the publication o f prices current, or market statements, from many houses in the particular marts of trade in the United Kingdom, for immedi ate transmission to their customers and connexions, and to the c ollection of those statements into other lists, and they w ould supply the materials for most useful tables and statistical statements, and produce a very great source of increase through the. Post office. But it is not alone from the inland marts of trade that these communications and prices current would proceed. " There is not a mart, or market, or place of any commer cial importance in the world, whose merchants and traders would not transmit to their correspondents in this country simi lar communi ca ti ons . " Such is the necess i ty for documents of this kind, both for transmission outward s and inwards, that merch an ts, who are compelled to send th em very extens i ve ly to foreign hou ses, are obliged to wr it e one here, and send it abroad to b e p rinted and distributed there ; thus transferring business, that w ould be done by our own mechanics in a superior style, to foreign coun tries, and imposing upon the merchant the necessity of doing that through the medium of others. but partially affected to wards his interests, which he could do better under his own eyes,. ' and for him se lf ; an d w hi ch i t i s mos t hnportant with ieference to many co ll atera l c i rcumstances , he should do for himself. Agents frequently defer the printing, or neglect to urge it, and to despatch the circulars with thst rapidity that is essential to render them greatly advantageous; or may confide ' the information to, or use it for, others ; or permit it by negli gence to be obtained by them, and in a variety of ways defeat the purpbses of the clreulat, and injure the interests of the Principal. Besides this, a want of becoming secretiveness on the part of agents frequently opens to the negligent cr the knavish the operations of the active and the diligent, and car ries from the rightful owner the advantage of his mind, skill, activity, and attention. " It is well known that, although the buyers of articles are not generally indisposed to look at specimens of the things they want, yet sellers are in a much greater degree anxious to submit them to buyers, than buyers are solicitous to have them submitted. Some idea may be formed of the great increase that would flow into the Post-office from this source when the fa..t is brought into view, that such is the necessity felt by ma nufacturers and buyers of having lists of prices in different .branches of trade, that large houses keep by them printedforms of letters, to be filled up by the ir servants„and addressed to the various tradesmen and mechanics who supply them, re questing that lists of their prices and specimens may be sent in, or that their travellers may call. " Now, if this is so frequent as to lead to having printed forms of request prepared, even by buyers, it may be readily conceived how numerous would be the next source of increase to which I shall draw attention—that of the power to transmit, through the Post-office, samples, specimens, descriptions, or illustrative prints, drawings, or outlines, at Id. for half an ounce weight. Considering the facility the Post-office, at Id. for half an ounce, would open for that purpose to sellers, and that these great advantages would be unalloyed by the power, on the part of the senders, to inflict the postage on those they addressed—a power which the present Post-office arrange ments place in the wrong person—the increase would be im mense, and yet subdued byajustrestriction, the necessityof :rank ing- it. But before I quit this class of circulars, I must advert to an implied concession, put forth in some of the questions of the Committee. It was inquired whether, if printed letters only were allowed to go through the Post-office, that would not give the chief advantages sought by prices current? Now, this it is ob vious would be comparatively valueless ; it would convey a permission, under the aspect of relief, retaining restrictions that would strangle its utility; it would be a vain attempt to reconcile inconsistencies, and to gain the advantage of free commerce, not by removing, but by shifting the fetters,' and easing them a little." But it is fully demonstrated, we think, further, that the in crease of circulars for the purpose of enclosing samples or patterns would be far greater than any others. Mr. Richard Cobden, a calico printer, produced a single pat tcrn, which he stated had undergone in one season 70 changes; that those changes could not be described by words, with the precision requisite to enable a party to pur chase, and they could not send them to their customers to ask their opinion and solicit their orders, except through the medium of a traveller ; but that if the postage were one penny, every one of these changes of the same pattern would be forwarded, and would give rise to additional cor respondence. . . . The same principle is shown to prevail in the lace and riband trade, where it would often happen that 200 or 300 patterns would be transmitted to the same dealer, to enable him to a d a pt hi s s t oc k t o the taste of his customers. This is altogether barred by the present rate of postage. An anecdote is given to show to what extent this question of taste or fancy prevails, and to what ranks it descends, and which forms part of a deposition on oath in a court of jus tice by a large dealer of this class. He showed a box of ribands, which he thought would suit from their price and colour, to a fislawoman ; she put them on one side, and very contemptuously said, " They may do for a chimbly sweep's wife, Sir, but no respectable woman would wear them ;" and a higher priced riband was purchased. On this it is well-remarked, that " whatever descends to and influences the masses in their choice is matter of great im portance to the tradesman, for all, from the highest to the lowest, are in chase of the consumer ; to that end, to that alone, the great hive are in motion. In scientific and other exhibitions it is satisfactorily shown that a great increase must arise from a low rate of postage ; also in travellers' circulars announcing an intended call to transact business. _lt is estimated that there are 20,000 travellers in England, and that each of them, at a very low calculation, calls upon 1,000 persons in the course of the year, all of whom would have notice if the postage were only a penny. At present the shifts and evasions practised to avoid any postage at all are endless, and would take a volume to describe. In the wine and spirit trade the facts collected and bear ing on this part of the subject are exceeding curious, as are those derived from the land-agents and auctioneers. The evidence of Mr. Brooks, of Bond-street, relative to this department of business, is very remarkable. • We take the abstract of it from Mr. Ashurst's pamphlet : " The increase of letters into the Post-office, at one penny postage, from their house, would be 20,000 in the shape of particular estates only. It is known to all, that many hun dreds of thousands of particulars are printed by land. agents and auctioneers in a year, for the purpose of distribution ; that it is their wish, from a sense of duty to their employers, as it is their interest, that those particulars should be transmitted to persons known to be in the market as capitalists, as land agents, as solicitors for men of landed property, as speculators, or as men in the habit of communicating to these who are seeking investments. "This gentleman stated to the Mercantile Committee a consequence flowing from the heavy rates of postage, and has since stated the same thing to the Parliamentary Committee, on the subject of advertisements, which must not only be greatly injurious to the public press, as diminishing the num ber of advertisements, but occasion a great loss to the public revenue. One half' of their inducement to advertise is done away with; for advertisers get nothing like the replies they would get, in consequence of the very expensive postage both ways. "It has become a necessity to say, letters must be post paid,' and that checks inquiries—parties will not go to the ex pense of 2s. for an inquiry and an answer ; and, although anxious to have the particulars of property, and very likely to become purchasers, they decline sending for the particulars at the cost of ls. or 2s. ; and much property is, and many houses are, now lying unsold, and deteriorating in the hands of parties desirous to sell or let, although there are many persons who would desire to have that property, if they knew the thing they want to be in the market. .61 The more,' said this gentleman, we advertise, the more Government get in the way of revenue; and the more they would get in postage, also, if it were reduced to a penny ; but it checks our disposition to advertise when we arc obliged to add, that letters must be post paid. I should advertise ten times more than I now do, if postage were reduced to a penny, for I wish to induce inquiries. I used to advertise some years since more largely than I now do; and if postage were re duced to one penny, I should again advertise in the public pa pers far more ostensively. lam surprised at the stnall num ber of replies we have, and I should send in strings of 40, 50, or 60 advertisements together, if I thought it consistent with the interests of my employers. Persons are unwilkg now to write and incur the postage of a reply, and wait till they come t o town ; and the inquiry dies , and the advertisements are corn paratively fruitless." A mass of evidence of the same kind has been given, but it is unnecessary to go further into it. If what is given —being, as it is, no more than a sample—will not carry con viction to those who are to decide upon th e ques tion, nothing will. (From the Times of yesterday.) In our last article on Post-office Reform, we presented the leading facts collected from the evidence of practical me n of business, to prove the great in crease o f revenue that must arise to the Post-office from the adoption of a universal pe nn y postage. We now p rocee d to cons i der what may be termed the social or moral part of this division of the subject—that is to say, the extent of the augmenta tion of Post-office income which is to be looked for from private c orrespondence, or correspondence originating in other causes than trade or money-making of any description whatever. It is obvious that we could not possibly obtain evidence of so precise and exact a nature in this case as in the other ; that it must be rather circumstantial than direct ; and yet it will be found that the same force of conviction must attach to it, and, moreover, that it holds forth a still greater prospect of increase than in the departments of trade and commerce. We are ind e bt e d i n t hi s , as i n t h e f ormer i ns t ance , t o the industry and researc h o f th e M ercant il e C omm itt ee on Postage, and will conside r fi rs t w h a t th e y s tate of the , ' suppressive effects" upon science and the arts of the pre sent heavy rates of postage. They remark—" There are various societies existing whose objects can only be effectu ally promoted by eliciting froin the operatives in the va rious brances of science and the arts the knowledge which, hourly familiarity with practical subjects has supplied to their minds. The operatives are engaged in working out the principles of science ; and though they may not always connect the theory or principles with the practice, still they are constantly marking coincidences by which they learn what is, and frequently are enabled of themselves to trace causation, and where they cannot, they can supply the facts by which other minds may be enabled to trace the cause, and thus enlarge the stock of science and open new fields of activity. The improvements in the mechanical arts have in most cases resulted from the observa tions of the working artisan, but the heavy rates of postage have prevented the most effectual mode of drawing forth and reaping for society the produce of their experience ; their knowledge in multitudes of cases dies with them, because their education does not enable them to convey their knowledge to educated men of science, who could use their facts and carry forward the results of the great teacher—experience." Following out the general rule here laid down, the Committee proceed to consider its application to the nu merous learned and scientific bodies which exist in this country. What is stated with respect to the society of civil engineers is, perhaps, as fit for our purpose as any, and to that, with the quantity of matter of the same kind before us, we can only afford a very brief space for de scription. Subjects are constant!y occurring before this society which render it of the utmost importance to collect facts from all' quarters. Within the last two or three years, but NATION. or the prohibitory tax of the Post-office, they would have DARIN G ROBBERY circulated inquiries all over the kingdom— OF THE TH On the subject of cements, and the manufacture of arti ficial cements ; how they were compounded and the pro portion of the ingredients: On the relative strength of materials for building ; of iron and wooden beams, and, in connexion with these, ti most important question, upon which there exists a great difference of opinion, as to the deflections for given weights: On the data and facts relating to the wear and tear of locomotive engines and of railroads, the different speed of engines, and the general details of the subjecf: On the quantity of steam to be produced by a given quantity of coals, and on the elastic force of steam ; on the duty of engines, especially of the Cornish engines ; and the work to be done by a given quantity of fuel : On the subject of blasting rocks, the quantity of powder requisite for a given quantity of stone, and the quantity for different stones, coal, and slate. • These and numerous other subjects would have put this Society, which •has members resident in all parts of the kingdom, into a state of incessant activity, and produced thousands of letters of inquiry, with the answers to them, where few, or comparatively none, could be sent. Among Societies established for religious or educational purposes another wide range of correspondence, under so cheap a rate of postage, would immediately be opened. Oc casions constantly arise in such Societies wherein circular letters would be addressed to the whole of the Clergy col lectively, to the Churchwardens and Overseers in every pa rish, and to the Dissenting Ministers of each congregation officially, and without any knowledge of the name of the party addressed, for it is provided in the proposed univer sal penny postage that it shall uniformly be paid by the sen der, in the shape of a stamp to be affixed to the letter, de priviug the Post-office of its financial department, and leav ing it no other duty than that of collection and delivery of letters, None sent would therefore be refused. To the Society of Friends such a reform would, it is conceived, be acceptable on other grounds than those of the economical and rapid diffusion of information all over the kingdom, though these are advantages not less sought after by them than by the rest of the community, in its moral effect of takitig away the temptation to deft aud the revenue, which, in spite o' a ll admonition, is found, in the case of postage, to be irresistible. - - We must borrow from Mr. Ashurst's pamphlet is stated of the operation of the high rate of postage on reli gious societies : A letter from one of the officers of the Religious Tract Society says— " The correspondence of this Institution extends to every part of the world ; and we have been particularly inconveni enced by the charge on the printed reports of our foreign auxiliaries, which seldom exceed two, but are more fre quently contained in one sheet of paper, put in an envelope open at both ends, and brought, free of expense, by the ves sels from abroad. These are, with the letters, placed in the Post office bag, and reach us with a charge of from 6s. or 7s. up to Si. or 91. for inland postage of parcels, whose intrinsic value does nut exceed Is. or 2s. ; the consequence is, ,the packet is refused, and the waste paper is all the Government obtain, and thus the intercourse between kindred societies is paralysed.' " 'Fhe effects of these suppressive rates are not witnessed by the many subscribers to these various and useful institu tions, but it is matter of great regret to its executive officers to see the :efforts that are made, and the usefulness of the Society, so grievously suppressed ' • the extent to which this suppression goes is shown in some degree by the examination of one of the officers of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Thlst gentleman stated, that the Society bad drawn upon them annually about 700 half-yearly bills from missionaries for their salaries ; that the expense of postage was very great ; and that when appointed secretary, and he had once seen the handwriting of each missionary, he sent them a circular, that they need not in future advise the drawing of their bills. Now, if a communication so essential to accuracy, and which would also present the opportunity to the missionaries to make a report of their exertions, were suppressed, it is easy to con ceive how the interest would tend to die away between men at a distance whose communications are thus restricted ; but, on the other hand, imagine an active and intelligent body of up wards of 300 of such men, encouraged to make such reports as might reasonably be expected from men of their intelli gence, and with such duties, and all those reports coming to a common centre, and the mass of valuable and various know ledge that would be brought together may be in some degree conceived. Then let the number of other Associations and subscribers be brought to view, all engaged in the prosecution of the same general objects, and the mass of useful materials that would thus be collected, and the extent to which the spread of the Gospel is limited ; may be perceived. " The increase into the Post-office from these Societies may be estimated in some degree bithe facts stated by the under treasurer of the last-named Society. That Society has from 12,000 to 15,000 subscribers ; they have 300 branch societies ; they now make a report once a-year, but they are desirous to report oftener, and would do so if they had the advantage of a penny postage. " NN , e have attempted,' said Mr. Staitsbury, the plan of insinuating a quarterly report, a brief statement of the opera tions of the Society, and'extracts from its correspondence. We should probably do that monthly, if we could do it without any great expense, the principal cost being the cost of trans mission. Such brief statements, in the majority of instances, we should send by post ; at present we send the major part of them by coach parcels. I have no hesitation in saying, that we should employ the Post-office for all except about 10 or 12 parcels.' " It will be obvious to all who take an interest in these objects, that the reduction of postage to one penny would lead to frequent reports to their subscribers and friends, and that a continuous steady interest might be kept up, which would render the important annual meetings that now take place more effective, by bringing their friends together with a fuller knowledge of the exertions that have been made. Frequent short reports would be read; thick annual volumes are not." In the mere private correspondence of the lower and middle classes it becomes necessarily still more difficult to adduce facts, but it is enough to consider the almost total privation under \ which they labour, to come to the conclu sion that in their case an enormous revenue would grow out of next to nothing. For this we would entreat the readers who follow us in this, to peruse again the affecting cases published last week of efforts made, by the extremely indigent and half-starved, to raise out of their scanty means the sum required to gain news of distant friends and rela tives. Can it be doubted that millions of letters would be written and received by such persons, if they could be car ried for Id. from any one part of the kingdom to the other ? It happens, however, that the letters of soldiers and sailors when on duty, which only incur that rate, afford a sort of practical illustration of what the poor would do, if they were not cut off from communication by the postage tax ; and the Mercantile Committee, among other inquiries, have not neglected this point. Nearly all the soldiers and sailors who can write are eager, it is stated, to avail them selves of this privilege. THE LATE ATTEMPT AT ASSASSI- (Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.) The prisoner having expressed a desire to make a state ment he then proceeded thus :—" I was at an inn called the Crown, on the road towards Greenwich, on Friday night, which is about a mile from the Duke of Normandy's house, at Camberwell. I dined at the Duke's house, and left about a quar t er to seven o ' c l oc k i n t h e evening. I straight to the Crown. It was about seven as near as pos sible. I went into the first room on the right-hand side, and when I entered I took my seat by the fire, and had half a pint of beer and some meat, which I brought with me from the Duke's house. There was a little boy and also a Frenchman, who has been here for the last three months, in the room at the time. I spoke to the French man on Saturday morning for the first time. About nine o'clock the same night I went for a half pint of beer to a neighbouring house, at which they sold a better article than at the Crown, and after having partaken of it I went back to the Crown. It was then nearly ten o'clock by the servant's watch, and I went up stairs to my bed. There were several persons in the tap room of the Crown, and also at the other house,_ who must have seen me at the time I was there, but I do not know their names. I had no conversation with the French man who lodges at the Crown on Saturday morning about the Duke of Normandy. I spoke but a few words to him, and it was the first time I did so, and what took place did not relate to the present affair. It was stated that the wounded man is yet consi dered in danger, and that he thinks he can identify his assailant. The prisoner was remanded for a week. It was stated that an attempt bad been made to assassi nate the Duke of Normandy in France a short time per vious to his coming to this country. At a meeting of the Radical Political Union of the Potteries, held on Wednesday, the hustings gave way in the middle of Mr. Feargus O'Connor's speech, and about fifty persons fell to the ground, but nobody was seriously hurt. Mr. O'Connor went to a heap of coals near the spot, and continued his speech to the close. The females of the Potteries have formed a PolitiCal Union.—Siafford shire Examiner. The Northampton Herald, in allusion to the late accident to the mail train on the Birmingham Railway, says—" The place where the ground is said to have given way has long been so obviously insecure as to make it a matter of perfect astonishment that it should have been framed, or, if so, suffered t o rema i n w ith ou t ar tificial sup port by brickw or k and arches. Indeed, we should not be surprised to h ear o f a tra i n being turned over into the._ water close by, s i nce t h e so il at the embankment on this b side the L e i g h ton stat i on i s of the l ooses t Jesemp m whilst the w id t h i s scarcely more t h an i s absolutely neces saryn i for the passage of the wheel." AND lEVES. CAPTUR BATH, Nov. 19—On Friday evening last some thieves entered the house of Colonel Kaye, in the Royal Crescent,. in this city, and took from thence a quantity of jewellery,. consisting of diamonds, pearls, gold watches, &c., amount ing id the value of 3,000/. The robbery is supposed to have taken place about eight o'clock in the evening. Colonel and Mrs. Kaye left their residence about that time to attend an evening party, se veral servants remaining in the house ; and the discovery took place immediately on their returnhome before midnight. Information being promptly given at the police station, Hall, a very clever officer, acting on some previous intel ligence, that if any robbery should occur similar to those which had been so daringly executed in Bath, for several previous winters, that the booty would probably be sent to Birmingham instead of London, immediately sent off two of the most active of the police establishment to Bristol. On arriving in that city one of them, standing at the door of an inn in Wine-street, for, the purpose of observation, saw on e whom he had reason to suspect belonged to the party coming towards the inn, attended by a porter, bearing a carpet bag. Keeping a strict watch on the further proceedings of this individual, he found that he had ordered a bed, and de posited other baggage at the Plume of Feathers (the name of the inn.) He was seen shortly after to leave the house and get into a hackney coach. From the driver of the coach information was obtained that he had got into a gig, waiting for him on the Gloucester-road, where he had been, joined by two others, and proceeded at a rapid rate in that direction. The officers, now certain that. they were on the right scent, looked about for the. spediest means of pursuit, and, finding a stage-coach about to start in the same direction, immediately acquainted the coachman with the necessity for expedition, followed so quickly that they arrived at the door of an inn about six miles from Bristol in a few minutes after the gig, which: was standing in a shed near the inn, had deposited the party. After some resistance two were captured, and the third succeeded in making his escape—but not with the booty, for the whole of the valuables stolen on the previous night from Colonel Kaye were found, eon cealed in the -pocket of a Mackintosh cape. The rob bers were then secured by being handcuffed, one on each side of " Perry," the strongest of the officers, whilst the -"her undertook to drive them back to Bristol in their own gig. When they had proceeded some miles, one of the thieves made a :lesperate effort to attempt to threw himself out of the vehicle, :nd would probably have succeeded but for the prompt assistance e rendered by a young gentles man, who was fortunately at hari:l. and was summoned in the Queen's name to aid the officers. They were then secured by one being fastened to each o fficer, and compel:, ling one pair to walk, whilst the young genti;.Aman drove the gig containing the other, back to Bristol ; and the rob bers were safely lodged in Bath prison on Saturday night.. The examination, which took place this day, was private „ for the purpose of ? securing the third ; and from ;ghat. transpired there is little doubt but there will be a. full discovery of the gang of housebreakers who , have committed so many daring robberies in Bath for the last three years, so as to seriously frighten some of the elderly inhabitants into a resolution to leave the place. if they sij!l continued undetected. Many very c cious implements used in housebreaking, &c., were found in the boxes left at the Plume of Feathers , this day exhibited at. in Bristol, which have bt2. l ' ll Guildhall. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, SOMERSET HOUSE. MATRICULATION EXAMINATION FOR 110 - 5 011 S 1 MATHEMATICS. Mr. G. B. Jerrard, EXAMINERS. Rev. R. Murphy. STUDENTS ARRANGED IN rHE ORDER OF PROFICIENCY.- Hargreave, University College, I Sargent, King's College, .m.quaies. Goodeve, King's College, 'Mason, University College, Greenwood, Do. Davison, Do. IitELAND. MR. O'CONNELL'S TOUR.—SPEECH AT FER MOY.--DINNER AT DUBLIN TO' DE CLARATION OF CONFIDENCE IN,. AND MR. O'CON NELL. The Irish Papers have, in their columns to-day, little or no news. Mr. O'Connell, as it is already known, proceeds' triumphantly on his tour of Agitation, and wherever . . he goes there is the " Liberator" hailed by the " shouts of assembled- thousands." One of the objects of nr. O'Connell's progress through the country—the formation, of Precursor Societies—seems to proceed satisfactorily towards its contemplated completion—whilst the " Libe rator," who repeatedly declares that 'he is a " missionary with the self-imposed duty of preaching political sermons,' lacks not numbers of well-beloving and attentive hearers. At Fermov, on Wednesday, the last dinner of whesh we have a report, about 200—and the number (says the Southern Reporter) would have been 500 had there been accommodation for tint number—welcomed Mr. O'Con nell, and listened with delight to every syllable that fell from his lips. It had lately so often been said that Mr.. O'Connell's popularity is on the wane, that some people have been found to believe that an assertion so boldly, perseveringly, put forth, must have some truth in it. There is, however, no warrant for the assertion. The en thusiastic acclamations of the multitude, the warm and hearty reception that wait.on and attend the " Liberator," go where he will, or say what he may, sufficiently settle that point. It is scarcely possible to conceive a higher de gree of popularity than that which Mr. O'Connell appears to enjoy in his own country. If any person doubt the per fect accuracy of this opinion, let him look at the organs or public opinion—let him read the Irish Papers, and he will see in them every day report upon report of the excessive enthusiasm which the " Liberator's" presence never fails to call forth from admiring millions of his fellow-country men. The People—and the Press, too, with but few ex ceptions, seem to think they cannot sufficiently honour the god of their political idolatry. We have said that there is to-day but little news from 1 Ireland ; but the Papers- from that country can never be destitute of interest, as they daily present to us a page in continuation of the eventful history of a People struggling hard for freedom—of " hereditary bondsmen" who perse veringly demand the restitution of their rights, and whop declare that they will be satisfied with nothing less than Equality—Religious, Municipal, Political, perfect Equa lity. From Mr. O'Connell's speech at Fermoy, as given by the Southern Reporter, we take out a few characteristic passages, which will be found to possess a peculiar intc- rest : " When I, Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, said he, left my native mountains about a week ago, I own I did an ticipate success to my then contemplated missionary pro jects. I ant a missionary. lam going about vindicating the rights of Ireland. My knowledge of the mind of Ire land—of the feelings and desires of the people—impelled me to look for success ; but I candidly confess and acknow ledge that my most ardent hopes have been exceeded. I ]have passed through the Southern Provinces of Ire and, and my call upon the people to be up and doing has been more than answered. The whole of the population is with me. I don't find a man to oppose me. Ireland needs to be regenerated. Her people know it ; they are alive to , their own interests—to a man they arc with me. It is my duty to be didactic. . . . . Ireland is perse cuted by the English Parliament and the English people. . . . . English ,bigotry and antipathy to Ireland are at this moment in full force, and shall we again submit to see a , Session occupied with the same abortive and ineffectual attempts to do justice to so great a . Ireland has been robbed of There is but one resource nation. her rights. . • • for Ireland—and think what that is— " Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.' Yes, know you who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ? This is the sentiment that must catch hold of universal Ireland. The man who acquiesces in the base treatment of England to Ireland, I pronounce to be a slave. Rally round me, Precursors, I want to have all all Ireland Precursors. . . . England re fuses equality of rights. If she persevere in that course, I tell her—and I make the announcement in the face of the world—that she shall have the Repeal of the Union. — (Cheers.) Some would taunt us with seekingesineis of the separa tion.—No—no —never, hope, will the destinies countries be separated. . • - • • • would effectually tAnd,he millions or Ireland e l l a t n e d l arn England , oral that actualthere i so power, wh i ch am on amongst strength that England could opeosetoolrt Justice to Ireland. prostrate. The repeal of the U nion, n i f I o rtmeliltyofp Eng l andri privileges e thatges —the of E w hich d. I tell her to cease from she had better right Ireland. mighty nation shall not be tam peringre- with her feelings. licahndis., a perfect . 1 sister country I have advantage of a with me. The sinew of my country is at pressed—shall not be put down at the caprice, or for the the Irish people The people appreciate their rights and my command. the delivery of th is s p eech. they must have them."--( Tremendous cheering accompanied On Thursday a numerous meeting of the Liberal con stituents of Dublin was convened in the rooms of the Corn Exchange, for the purpose of devising the best means of expressing their unabated confidence in, and gratitude to their dist►nguished Representative, Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., and a resolution was accordingly put and carried that Mr. O'Connell should be invited to a public dinner— the time to be most suitable to him.